Company
Date Published
Author
Jim Walker
Word count
419
Language
English
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None

Summary

Cockroach Labs has been included in the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS) by Gartner, marking a significant milestone. The company's CockroachDB cloud DBMS is designed for transactional use cases and distributed systems. This year, only 20 vendors made it onto the Magic Quadrant, which evaluates market momentum, capabilities, and customer reviews. CockroachDB was rated high for consistency and multicloud/hybrid deployment capabilities. The company's vision is to create a cloud-native DBMS that elastically scales based on usage, integrates with other data architectures, and offers SQL compatibility.